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__________________I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. TrudeauA person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black.Enjoy every sandwich. - Warren Zevon

__________________I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. TrudeauA person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black.Enjoy every sandwich. - Warren Zevon

Welcome to the forum Sizzling Teapot (et al) and pay no attention to that lot.

I should warn you, though, that allowing someone else (for example your doppleganger) to use your account is not allowed. Also, posting on behalf of your doppleganger ("posting by proxy"), especially if the doppleganger has been banned from the Forum, may be considered equivalent to allowing that doppleganger/person to use your account.

If you know a doppleganger who wishes to comment on something they have read here please encourage them to stop staring at plants and join the Forum.

My sister gave me goosebumps when she told me she saw me in the garden staring at my plants, and when she went inside she jumped in fear because I was watching television in the living room! Did she just see my doppelganger or was it just her antidepressants talking?

It could be that she saw somebody like you or she was tired or stressed that day. Strange things could happen every day. Unless she is emotionally sick.

__________________Me: So what you're saying is that, if the load carrying ability of the lower structure is reduced to the point where it can no longer support the load above it, it will collapse without a jolt, right?

__________________"At the Supreme Court level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
Justice William O. Douglas

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The whole thing is very serious! ... no pun intended

__________________Horrible dipsomaniacs and other addicts, be gone and get treated, or covfefe your soul!These fora are full of scientists and specialists. Most of them turn back to pumpkins the second they log out.I got tired of the actual schizophrenics that are taking hold part of the forum and decided to do something about it.

I agree, people should stop sniping. Hopefully we will swiftly get back on topic before this thread flickers out.

__________________I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. TrudeauA person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black.Enjoy every sandwich. - Warren Zevon

Traits
Shapechanger: The doppelganger can use its action to Polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid it has seen, or back into its true form. Its Statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any Equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.

Ambusher: In the first round of a Combat, the doppelganger has advantage on Attack rolls against any creature it has surprised.

Surprise Attack: If the doppelganger surprises a creature and hits it with an Attack during the first round of Combat, the target takes an extra 10 (3d6) damage from the Attack.

Read Thoughts: The doppelganger magically reads the surface thoughts of one creature within 60 ft. of it. The effect can penetrate barriers, but 3 ft. of wood or dirt, 2 ft. of stone, 2 inches of metal, or a thin sheet of lead blocks it. While the target is in range, the doppelganger can continue reading its thoughts, as long as the doppelganger's Concentration isn't broken (as if concentrating on a spell). While reading the target's mind, the doppelganger has advantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Charisma (Deception, Intimidation, and Persuasion) checks against the target.

Probably pareidolia. She saw a pattern she interpreted as a human figure and assumed it was you.

This.

The most common ghosts are those of still living people, usually family members. This phenomenon is what led me to believe that ghosts were not paranormal, disembodied spirits of the dead, but something that happens inside the viewer's head.

Humans have five senses, and their brains receive continuous input which has to be sorted out. Sometimes the brain misinterprets the information, and sends inaccurate responses to the conscious mind. It happens all the time, we just forget it because it's momentary as the active mind instantly works to confirm the data, and quickly dismisses it.

In this case, if the author is telling it accurately, the viewer's mind did not dismiss the false image since seeing a family member in the garden is not unusual.

This reminds of something weird that happened back in my college days.

We had been studying modal logic, and I realized that if X is possibly true, then it's necessarily the case that X is possibly true, otherwise you get a contradiction. I wanted to talk to the philo professor about it during office hours, and he asked me why I was asking him the same question again.

Seems someone who looked exactly like me had asked him that same thing several hours ago.

However, as our teapot seems to have gone off the boil, we will probably never know.

Originally Posted by Fudbucker

This reminds of something weird that happened back in my college days.

We had been studying modal logic, and I realized that if X is possibly true, then it's necessarily the case that X is possibly true, otherwise you get a contradiction. I wanted to talk to the philo professor about it during office hours, and he asked me why I was asking him the same question again.

Seems someone who looked exactly like me had asked him that same thing several hours ago.

Location: stranded at Buenos Aires, a city that, like NYC or Paris, has so little to offer...

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Originally Posted by Fudbucker

This reminds of something weird that happened back in my college days.

We had been studying modal logic, and I realized that if X is possibly true, then it's necessarily the case that X is possibly true, otherwise you get a contradiction. I wanted to talk to the philo professor about it during office hours, and he asked me why I was asking him the same question again.

Seems someone who looked exactly like me had asked him that same thing several hours ago.

Very weird.

I have said it exactly the same to students of mine, several times.

It happens some of them, as I used to explain, are fond of using you as their personal notepad, and have no shame in asking you question, they don't register your answer and later they ask you all over again. In some cases, very similar questions triggered a "false positive", either because I was more concentrated in the questions than the faces, or just because I don't quite have good memory for faces (or because I weren't wearing my contact lens).

Additionally, it may have been premonition on my part ... or astral projections ... whatever is more likely.

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